Happy new year to you too crony! Updating the documentation to make various things easier is on our todo list, but there is only so much we can do ourselves. For example, right now we're a bit busy getting a new batch of releases ready with a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Hopefully we will get to the documentation soon but it would be great if the community steps up and gives us a hand.

Anyhow, it just so happens that the new version of VirtualBox (2.1) makes setting up bridging type networking much easier. You select which Host Interface you want to bridge your VM too and it just works.